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{{short description|Former football stadium in Walthamstow, London}}
{{for|the section of CR 513 in New Jersey called Green Pond Road|County Route 513 (New Jersey)}}
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'''Green Pond Road''' was a football stadium in [[Walthamstow]], [[London]] and the home ground of [[Walthamstow Avenue F.C.|Walthamstow Avenue]] until they merged with [[Leytonstone F.C.|Leytonstone]] & [[Ilford F.C.|Ilford]] to form [[Redbridge Forest F.C.|Redbridge Forest]], a precursor to [[Dagenham & Redbridge F.C.|Dagenham & Redbridge]]. The ground was often simply called '''The Green Pond''' or '''The Pond'''.

==History==
The stadium was used for one game during the [[Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics|football tournament]] of the [[1948 Summer Olympics]].

The last game played at Green Pond Road was the last game of the 1988–89 season (on Saturday 6 May 1989), when [[Redbridge Forest F.C.|Leytonstone/Ilford]] defeated [[Farnborough Town]] 5–3.  Leytonstone had finished the season as Champions of the [[Isthmian League Premier Division]], with Farnborough in second place.

===Olympic matches===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center
!Date
!Time
!Team #1
!Result
!Team #2
!Round
!Attendance
|-
|2 August 1948||18:30|| {{fb|TUR}} || 4–0 || {{fb|Republic of China}} || [[Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics|First round]]||3,000<ref>[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/london1948/matches/round=197052/match=32359/index.html Turkey - China PR] FIFA</ref>
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://walthamstowavenue.wordpress.com/category/green-pond-road/ Pictures of Green Pond Road]

{{1948 Summer Olympic venues}}
{{Olympic venues football}}
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[[Category:Venues of the 1948 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:History of the London Borough of Waltham Forest]]
[[Category:Defunct football venues in England]]
[[Category:Walthamstow]]